The Action Group | Syria
 The former Syrian regime arrested hundreds of Palestinian elites in Syria from the first day of the Syrian revolution until its fall. After monitoring the Action Group, it became clear that the regime did not release any of them, and they are among the missing and forcibly disappeared in its prisons.Among the journalists is “Muhib Salman Al-Nawati.”
 His life
Muhib Salman Al-Nawati Abu Al-Majd is 56 years old, a journalist, writer, and member of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. He has two poetry collections and a book. His origins go back to Gaza City. He was granted asylum in Norway in 2007 and obtained its citizenship. His mother, Naifa, martyred in March 2023 after the Israeli occupation army burned down her house while she was inside. He is the father of five children, and his family lives in Europe.
Arrest and charge:
 He was arrested by Israel several times for his participation in the activities of the popular Uprising in 1987. After the Palestinian Authority took over the rule of Gaza, he established the Atlas Center for Studies and Documentation. Then the Syrian regime arrested him in January 2011 upon his arrival at Damascus Airport. Since then, there has been no information about his fate. “On January 5, 2011, Muhib al-Nawati’s phone was turned off and he has not been in contact since,”his wife, Ibtisam, said of the circumstances of his arrest. “The circumstances of Muhib al-Nawati’s disappearance are unclear. His family and colleagues have reported that the Syrian government is holding him. The Syrian Foreign Ministry confirmed to a Norwegian diplomat in 2013 that he was being held on charges of spying for Israel, according to Eva Stabile of the Norwegian Union of Journalists and news reports.
To date, the Syrian government has not allowed anyone to speak directly with Muhib al-Nawati to confirm his health, condition, and whereabouts, his wife told CPJ. Ibtisam al-Nawati told CPJ that the espionage accusation is baseless. She believes her husband was arrested in retaliation for his critical writings.
Unanswered Appeals
 His family previously said, “Despite all the humanitarian, national, and official appeals directed to the Syrian authorities and to the ousted president, Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian security forces do not want to answer questions about his status.”Muhib Al-Nawati, and we tried to contact the International Red Cross, where it stated that Syria prevents the presence of a Red Cross mission on its territory, and this is what made us certain that there is something wrong, so the Syrian authorities prevent the presence of the Red Cross on its territory, because the Red Cross can visit prisons and thus reveal the facts to public opinion that there are hundreds of detainees in secret Syrian prisons.
 Norwegian Action
 Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende said: “The efforts to clarify what may have happened with Muhib al-Nawati are a high priority. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly raised this issue with the Syrian authorities. However, we have not learned how al-Nawati was arrested or whether he has been tried. The political turmoil in Syria since 2011 and the ongoing civil war have made following up on this matter complicated from the beginning. The loss of the permanent Norwegian diplomatic presence in Syria has made it difficult to monitor the matter immediately. However, Norwegian diplomats have held meetings with representatives of the Syrian authorities on the case in which both questions surrounding al-Nawati’s security and whereabouts have been recorded. Through official and unofficial channels, the Foreign Service maintains regular contact with relevant people, networks and organizations that may have information on the case
 Hope of meeting
The family has been hoping for a meeting with him for years, but after the fall of the regime and the opposition’s entry into prisons and security branches, their hope was lost, as were hundreds of thousands of detainees in Syrian prisons. His wife says: “For years, I and the children have been living in agony because we cannot know where he is. I have not left a Syrian journalist or A Syrian official, we asked  all of them about my husband and some of them confirmed to me that he was in prison. His six children felt the absence of Muhib Al-Nawati, and until recently his daughter Maysara did not lose hope of reuniting with them soon.